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Re: IETF must use only UTC in its announcements (Was: Live Streaming of the IETF 88 Technical Plenary

Andrew Feren <andrewf@plixer.com> Wed, 30 October 2013 17:20 UTC

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On 10/30/2013 04:13 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 09:10:08AM -0400,
>  IAB Chair <iab-chair@iab.org> wrote 
>  a message of 54 lines which said:
>
>> The Technical Plenary session is expected to be popular.  It will be
>> held on Wednesday, 6 Nov 2013 at 0900 PST,
> Why why why using a local timezone when announcing a live broadcast,
> which will be seen by many people anywhere in the world?
>
> Do note also that there are three different timezones in the world
> which are named PST. Not everyone lives in North America!
>
> IETF must use only UTC when announcing a worldwide event.
What, not Internet Time
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time)?
;-)

-Andrew

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